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McCain's Incoherence on Global Warming Continues

As chronicled here, first Sen. John McCain delivered a incoherent global warming speech, offering a set of principles for legislation that are contradictory. The incoherence continued, when he expressed support for global warming legislation from his close ally Sen....

Challenge and Community in the Heartland

The nation’s eyes are again on Iowa this week, as its residents struggle with the aftermath of violent storms and devastating flooding. People from Cedar Rapids to Columbus Junction to Des Moines are dealing with the tragic loss of life and the grim destruction of...

Not So Stories: "2nd Highest" Corporate Tax Rate

In the latest Bloggingheads.tv installment of "The Week In Blog" with The Heritage Foundation's Conn Carroll and myself, Conn offered a talking point I've been hearing a lot from conservatives lately: that America has the second highest corporate tax rate in the...

Real Men Don't Type

Twenty years ago this spring, the small software company I was working for hired in a new vice president of advertising to be, among other things, my boss. The guy, who'd come from running his own agency, was a CEO crony. He had all kinds of old-hippie cred (he'd...

More Details on How Bush Aids the Terrorists

McClatchy Newspapers is scheduled on Sunday to release a major investigation of the facts behind the detention of some 66 people in Guantanamo Bay and in Afghanistan by the U.S. government. It will bolster one inescapable conclusion: President Bush, by sanctioning a...

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